{"id":6297,"date":"2014-10-29T20:34:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T15:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=6297"},"modified":"2014-10-29T17:35:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T12:05:39","slug":"breaking-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2014\/6297\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw her early in the morning, a small, tentative woman. She would come close to the truck for a short while then retreat, afraid to have hope. I knew by her manner she would not be on the list for a blanket.<\/p>\n<p>She tried to tell the list-makers \u200bto include her name also in the list \u200b but all in vain.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/10\/jk-blanket14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/10\/jk-blanket14-450x300.jpg\" alt=\"jk-blanket14\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/10\/jk-blanket14-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/10\/jk-blanket14.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, as we gave our final twenty blankets, she was still there<br \/>\nwatching, knowing she would again be left behind. Br. Amit saw her too<br \/>\nand quietly found a way to slip her two blankets without drawing the attention<br \/>\nof the crowd.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/10\/jk-blanket15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/10\/jk-blanket15-450x300.jpg\" alt=\"jk-blanket15\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/10\/jk-blanket15-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/10\/jk-blanket15.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She examined her blankets with care, neatly folded them, and proudly walked away with a huge smile on her face.<\/p>\n<p>\u200b\u200bI swear she stood four inches taller. \u200bFollowing &#8220;The List&#8221; has been very helpful so that we may deliver the maximum number of blankets in a reasonable amount of time, but some times we have to break some rules, especially in such cases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Scotti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw her early in the morning, a small, tentative woman. She would come close to the truck for a short while then retreat, afraid to have hope. I knew by her manner she would not be on the list for a blanket. She tried to tell the list-makers \u200bto include her name also in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[615],"class_list":["post-6297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster-relief","tag-jkflood"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}